You’d be surprised how different it really was back in the early 1900s. Schools back in the 1900s had a much more difficult time than students today with all of the technological advances. In the early 1900s schools only had one teacher, a large room to teach in and every grade level to teach. School wasn’t really required back then, most attended but once a male was in about the sixth grade, he would drop out and help work with his father to support the family. They didn’t even know if school would still be around now; they thought that teaching would fail, all together giving up on education.
The women and children were paid less than the men. Because of the horrible conditions, in 1833, the Factory Act was passed. It set the minimum age to work at 9 and children under 18 years of age, could not work more than 12 hours a day. Later on in 1844, the Excessive Work act was passed, stating that women, also could not work more than 12 hours a day. Diseases were very present during the Industrial Revolution, although they did not have much of an impact of America taking action to help the issue.
But most of the workers, hired into the factories were not adults, but children who were orphaned or forced into labour due to poverty. The poor children really had no choice to work in factories or coal mines because their families needed money and have everyone work at the earliest ages, also most children couldn’t go to school and get an education because their families didn’t have enough money to support them. They also didn’t make as much money as adults either; usually 10-20% of a normal mans earnings per day. So they were considered “cheap labour” by the factory owners. There was an alternate way of making a living in London for children, as in Oliver, children stole from others and made quite a decent living, but for most the reality of their lives were found in the factories and
The fact that around 40 percent of the miners are children is awful. The miners who were adults would not do anything because all this work was so they could help their families survive. 19 percent said they had seen a child die on an artisanal mining site. 87 percent experienced body pain, and many had been injured. 67 percent reported frequent or persistent coughing.
Women who are able to keep their jobs, and find a reasonable and affordable childcare facility are impacted by the glass ceiling barrier. If a single woman is considering having another child, not being able to bring home an equal pay for the same work duties a man earns, is a clear example of how the glass ceiling barrier is a penalty for women who have children while working a job. Although the glass ceiling barrier is mainly used for top level positions, it also affects women of all economic levels. “In 2002, American employers paid out over $263 million in sex discrimination lawsuits.” (Murphy and Graff 36) Companies like Wall-Mart in 2007, Home Depot in 1997, and Publix Super Markets in 1997 have all been sued for gender discrimination by numerous female workers, and all have had to settle out of court. (Trumball
Families moved from rural areas to the newly industrialized cities to find work. Once there, things were not as great as they dreamed they would be. In order to survive, families had to have everyone in the household working. This led to the epidemic of child labor with children, as young as six years old, working in harsh conditions for long hours in factories or coal mines (Dunlop, 1912). Young children could be hired to do the same jobs as adults for much less pay and could often fit into places adults couldn't.
Since 1971 education cost has increased from $4,300 to more than $9,000 per student. As seen in Bianca's case, her mother cannot afford to pay for her tuition and Daisy's father is unemployed. These kids are forced into "bad education." Some students do not have any aspirations. They live in a neighborhood full of crime therefore their main focus is survival instead of learning.
Forks High School had a frightening total of only three hundred and fifty-seven -- now fifty-eight -- students; there were more than seven hundred people in my junior class alone back home. All of the kids here had grown up together--their grandparents had been toddlers together. I would be the new girl from the big city, a curiosity, a freak. Maybe, if I looked like a girl from Phoenix should, I could work this to my advantage. But physically, I'd never fit in anywhere.
In 1996 the University of Kabul reportedly had several thousand women students while thousands of professional women worked in different capacities in the city. When the Taliban toke over, women were not allowed to attend school and others have been forced to leave their jobs. The Taliban had issued edicts forbidding women from working outside the home, except in limited circumstances in the medical field. Hardest hit were the 30,000 widows in Kabul and others elsewhere in the country, who are the sole providers of their family. Women and girls were not allowed to appear outside the home unless wearing a head to toe garment called the burqa.
Between 1200 and 1500 parents tried not to love their children becaue hey would often die from sickness. If the child did not die they would participate in all parts of adult life, they were even dressed like little adults. The only problem was that there was no formal education. By the 1800’s formal education was aviable but only to the upper class children. The lower class children had to work alongside adults.